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Major Sports Pet Peeve

I'm a big Brett Favre guy. Didn't care for him early in his career, but I've developed a great deal of respect for him over the years. Having said that, I really hate this trend in por sports to stop a game right in the middle of it and have some special ceremony once a milestone is hit, or a big record broken.

They stopped the GB - MN game for about 5 minutes and put some pre-recorded message from Dan Marino on the big screen when Favre broke the TD record.

I'm not sure when this started (I think it might have been Cal Ripken's consecutive game streak), but I wish it would stop.

Grape works as a soda. Sort of as a gum. I wonder why it doesn't work as a pie. Grape pie? There's no grape pie. - Larry David

Re: Major Sports Pet Peeve

One of the reasons why soccer is such a great sport. The clock just keeps running. No time to stop the game for some silly ceremony.

Amen - Rugby does it as well - the clock just keeps rolling nonstop and they make up time at the end due to injuries or arguing and so on.

I've been watching the Rugby World Cup and it seems those matches (which should run the same amount of time as a regulation football game) clock in at 2-2.5 hrs tops.

I bought season tickets last year to the Cardinals because of the new stadium and didn't re-up again because I forgot how boring and incredibly long games are in person. Doing that every other weekend is just a killer.

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Originally Posted by Redsfaithful

I actually thought it was pretty funny that Favre just ignored Marino's message, talking to teammates and looking at plays.

I agree. Favre knew he still had virtually an entire game to play and he began to get ready for the Packers next possession.
I'll confess that I kind of liked Ripken's going around the field after he set the consecutive games streak, and at the time I even enjoyed the ceremonies when McGwire hit no. 62 in 1998 with the Maris family in attendance (subsequent events have changed my perspective of the latter event), but I agree with MWM-these stop the game ceremonies are getting old.
Actually, there is an earlier "stop-the-game" ceremony that I enjoyed at the time, although watching it now is sad: The September 1985 ceremony when Pete Rose hit 4192.

Re: Major Sports Pet Peeve

Originally Posted by RedsBaron

I agree. Favre knew he still had virtually an entire game to play and he began to get ready for the Packers next possession.
I'll confess that I kind of liked Ripken's going around the field after he set the consecutive games streak, and at the time I even enjoyed the ceremonies when McGwire hit no. 62 in 1998 with the Maris family in attendance (subsequent events have changed my perspective of the latter event), but I agree with MWM-these stop the game ceremonies are getting old.
Actually, there is an earlier "stop-the-game" ceremony that I enjoyed at the time, although watching it now is sad: The September 1985 ceremony when Pete Rose hit 4192.

A more earlier one than that one was when Henry Aaron broke the Babe's record in 1974. That was a big one of course. I agree there is too much stoppage in play for lesser records.

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A standing ovation, some tears and then play ball. Dumb ceremonies add nothing -- less is more. People just can't seem to get that.

The widow is gathering nettles for her children's dinner; a perfumed seigneur, delicately lounging in the Oeil de Boeuf, hath an alchemy whereby he will extract the third nettle and call it rent. ~ Carlyle

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Originally Posted by registerthis

Meh. Use your hands once in awhile, will ya?

They really should review that rule, might speed up the game.

The widow is gathering nettles for her children's dinner; a perfumed seigneur, delicately lounging in the Oeil de Boeuf, hath an alchemy whereby he will extract the third nettle and call it rent. ~ Carlyle

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Boomer has jumped the shark big time. I can't stomach him in any format.

"Back, back, back, back"

bleech

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I've noticed this one way too many times and it drives me up a wall every time I hear it.

"The score is 34-10. That's a 24 point differential."

No, that's not a differential. Differential is a calculus term. You aren't doing calculus so stop trying to sound like you are when you really are doing subtraction. There's a term for the result of a subtraction operation, and it's called the difference. Get it right.

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